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L. K.STRANG. BEADING MAGHINE FOR SHOES.

No. 416,306. Patented Dec. 3,"1889 (No Model.) 2Sheets-Sfieet 2.

. L. K. STRANG.

BBADING MACHINE FOR SHOES.

No. 416,306. Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

wmuml UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEIV K. STRANG, OF HAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN D. \VELDON, OF SAME PLACE.

BEADlNG-MACHINE FOR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,306, dated December 3, 1889.

Serial No. 320.215. (N model.)

To all whom, it may concern: Be it known that I, LEW K. STRANG, of Haverhill, in the county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Beading Machines, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which. said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in Which- Figure 1 is afront elevation of myimpro ved machine, a portion of the standards and open- I 5 ing-iron being broken away; Fig. 2, a sectional elevation on line x min Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a plan View showing the anvils.

Like letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

My invention relates to a device for ham- 'mering the button-flap of shoes during the process of heading; and it consists in certain novel features hereinafter fully set forth and 2 5 claimed, the object being to'produce a simpler, cheaper, and more effective device of this character than is now in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation. r

In the drawings, A represents the body of the machine, B the table, and C the stand. The stand C is supported by legs I) on the table B. The body A consists of two curved metallic arms I) F in the same vertical plane. The arms are preferably cast in one piece, being formed integral at their rear ends at d, and the lower arm is secured to the stand 0 by bolts f. A horizontally-arranged shaft g is journaled in the upper arm D and bears a driving-pulley h at its rear end and a crankdisk 1' at its forward end. A hammer-plate 7c, provided with a longitudinal slot Z, through 45 which the forward end of the shaft projects,

is fitted to slide vertically in guide-rings m on the forward end of the arm D. A cranklever p is pivoted to the disk '5 and the upper ing head or hammer proper q. An anvil I'I,

consisting of a U-shaped bar having a laterally-elongated working face or head 7, is disposed directly under the hammer q, and is adjusted vertically on the forward end of the machine-arm F by means of aslot if and bolts and nuts c. The anvil H is provided with a shoulder w, which rests on a projection 50 on the front of the stand 0, through which a screw-bolt y passes into engagement with said shoulder and serves to relieve the bolts '0 from the hammer-blows. The outer end of the anvil-bar H is reduced and rounded, as shown at 15 in Fig. 2, and serves as a turningiron, over which the button-piece may be turned before hammering. A roll or shapingwheel 17 is journaled in the anvil end 15, and projects slightly above said end, said roll aiding greatly in shaping the button-piece, as

it readily enters and slides in the scallops 7 thereof. A U-shaped bar K is secured by one end to the stand 0 in such position that its free end 16 is disposed over the projection r of the anvil and at one side of the hammer. The end 16 is reduced and rounded in the same manner as the end 15 of the anvil. At each side of the bodyA an oval anvil P is secured to the stand 0.

In the use of my improvement the button piece after being sewed at the edge is turned, the end 15 and wheel 17 of the iron I-I being employed to shape said piece and force the seam outward into its proper shape when the edge is pinked 0r scalloped. The end 16 of the bar K is then inserted in the button-piece 5 and serves as a guide as well as forming-iron to shape the piece while passing over the face 0" of the anvil and subject to the blows of the hammer 7a.

To compensate for variation in the thickness of the material, the anvil H is made vertically adjustable, as described.

-I provide the oval anvils P on the stand C, upon which any imperfect hammered places may be finished by means of a mallet in the ordinary manner.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is 1. In a device of the character described, a body comprising two parallel arms, a shaft ICO journaled in the-upper arm and bearing a crankdisk, a hammer-plate sliding vertically on said arm and provided with an elongated head, a crank-rod connecting said disk and plate, and a Ushaped anvilbar havin a reduced rounded outer end provided with a shaping-wheel and vertically adjustable on the lower body arm, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the characterdescribed, a body provided with a hammer actuated by a crank-shaft, in combination with an anvil-bar vertically adjustable on said body, and a U- shaped folding-iron having its free end projeeting over the face of said anvil, substantially as set forth.

3. In a device of the character described, a body provided with a erank-actuatet'l hannn erplate, in combination with a vertically-adjustable anvil-bar having an elongated head and supporting-shoulder, a screw-bolt in said body engaging said shoulder, and a- U -shaped folding-iron on said body, its free end projecting over the anvil-head, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4:. A crank-actuated hammer-plate on the machine-body, a vertically-adjustable anvilbar,a shaping-wheel journal'ed in the tree end thereof, and a U-shaped folding-iron having its working-edge disposed over the anvil-head substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

5. The body A, crank-shaft q, plate 7.1, and rod 1), in combination with the anvil. .ll, ad- ;j ustable vertically on said body and provided with the shoulder (If, the bolt y, and foldingiron K, arranged substantially as set forth.

(i. The stand G, provided With the anvils I, in combination with the body A, the shaft g, bearing the pulley 7L and disk '2', the hammer-plate it and rod 2), the adjustable anvilbar ll, provided with the wheel 17, and folding-iron K, constructed and arranged to operate substantially as set forth.

LEW K. STRANG. Witnesses:

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